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According to the MEN Greene King restaurant Pub has commenced Development.
No details yet on the planned opening ?

Good news at last, but don't you just love the comments to the article in the MEN - here's one:

"More traffic, more people, more drunks,less parking for the People who live in this actual area. Did AJ BELL consider this at the time? If course not. They saw the pound signs and jumped on board. OF COURSE YOU CAN GREEN KING, said the stadium owners not giving a toss about the home owners who live in the immediate area. I Originally thought the stadium would be good for the area, now I see i was wrong."

A carvery before kick off sounds like a good idea to me.

Yes it has to be better than the carvery we got after kick-off last Thursday.

I mentioned this the other week when Amazon asked about starting the warehouse build early, but isn't there a caveat in the original plans stating that anything other than the building of the stadium can be started until the full link road is finished?

I'd love there to be a nice family restaurant near the ground, let's hope it's rugby themed and makes some form of concession too Salford/Sale season ticket holders, in my eyes the better the facilities surrounding the ground the better the game day experience will be.

I can't see it being a rugby theme because Farmhouse Inns is the Greene King theme. I'd imagine they have a consistent style of furnishings and decor in all their establishments. Companies work hard to develop a recognisable brand and their marketing people will insist on keeping to the same style. I think it's likely to be very similar to Applewood Farm in Astley.

They'd be missing a trick for me, say anyone who attends with a season ticket for any RL/RU club gets a discount that would Im sure tempt people. Barton is one of the few sports venues in the country that has top class rugby (okay I know that will cause great mirf from some of out 6 toed trolls) all year round and being close too the TC means there is likely too daily be people traveling past from other rugby towns.

The season ticket idea may entice more custom but I think they will be looking beyond just rugby. For instance the volume of people in the vicinity when all the retail is built and Port Salford which will create several thousand new jobs..

makes me Laugh , It's Brookhouse , not Mottram St Andrew -
They lived next door to a Scrap heap and a busy motorway & the land the stadium was on was a dumping ground with illegal off road bikers making a noise you could hear from Davyhulme. Hardly Wordsworth country .

Anyway since the Airport Hotel was demolished , they're one Pub down .. just wait til the Ikea get planning , then they'll have something to moan about

Swedish meatballs and soft furnishings before a game.

What more could you want.

Can't see any mention on the Greene King site about this, plans or any form of announcement. Where is it in relation too the stadium?

Have AJ Bell not realised a statement to distance themselves from Peel Holding's plans?

They could lose hundreds of potential investors from the Brookhouse district.